Juliet
When Juliet says this in Part 1, Scene 3, "Madam, I am here. What is your will?" she is showing this.
What is her youthful sense of disobedience?
He prevents Romeo from attempting suicide. What are the arguments he uses?
What are that the Prince could've sentenced him to die, by not he is sparing him. Therefore, Romeo is lucky.
When the Nurse is mocked by Mercutio, how does he mock her?
He makes fun of how she looks.
What words of Juliet’s in 1.3 hint at the mature strength she is to show later?
What is, "It is an honour that I dream not of." when she is refering to marrige?
He breaks the news of Romeo's banishment to him. How does he handle Romeo's emotional reaction?
He shows him the positives of what happened.
What is amusing about her expressions of indignation when talking to Romeo privately?
Her face was red and she was very mad.
How do the Nurse’s reminiscences in the scene help to focus on the Juliet of the present and the Juliet of the future?
What is they show how she matured and is still maturing?
What is ominous about the Friar's opening and subsequent words on the occasion when we next meet him (2.6)?
He says, "So smile the heavens upon this holy act,
That after hours with sorrow chide us not!" This foreshadows that this marriage is not going to go well.
What does her manner with Peter tell us of her character?
We can tell that she is short tempered and doesn't like to have her time wasted.
In 1.5, Juliet shares with Romeo and dialogue in sonnet form.* Identify the poem, and show how their love affair makes physical progress through Juliet’s adept responses to Romeo’s purposeful advances.
What is, "If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss." When Juliet is going along with this it furthers their relationship.
What has slowed him down as he made his way through the graveyard to find Romeo and Juliet?
He is stumbled running there.
In 2.5 the Nurse makes the most of her advantage over Juliet by procrastinating. What is the Nurse’s first teasing trick?
She says ,"I am a-weary, give me leave awhile:
Fie, how my bones ache! what a jaunt have I had!" This is saying she is tired and sore.
Which of Juliet’s remarks after Romeo leaves is ominously prophetic?
What is, "Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing."
How does this relate to his last piece of advice to Romeo from 2.3?
He tells Romeo that "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."
What four things does she use to procrastinate?
She says she is tired, sore, needs to see Lady Capulet, and tells her to take her own messages.